Clouds Gathering on the Horizon?

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW DETROIT, Michigan – The U.S. automotive industry has been on an impressive five-year run since the 2009 Great Recession, posting substantial profits and break-through technology achievements, all leading to record unit volumes in 2015. Even recurring business issues such as workforce readiness, challenging global market… Read more »

The Winds of Change

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW DETROIT, MI – Cultural changes. Market changes. Ideological changes. As we move through this decade, the one constant we can expect is rapid change. In our current political climate, it has become a given. For the automotive industry, perhaps more than others, change is a… Read more »

Detroit Auto Show 2016

Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW January 22, 2016 OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FLOOR OF THE SHOW Industry hits record sales volume in U. S. – Cars plus light duty and medium duty trucks topped 17.6 million in sales volume in 2015, which is an all-time volume record. With the arrival of technology… Read more »

Innovating to Make Things Better

DETROIT, Michigan – During this decade, the automotive industry has been a bellwether in its development of leading-edge technology – offering the world commercial solutions that promote vehicle safety, new mobility platforms, environmental achievements, and measurable energy efficiency. Despite the weight of product recalls and intense global socio-economic uncertainties, the industry has contributed mightily to… Read more »

Let’s Return to Purposeful Teaching

NASHVILLE, Tennessee. – The stunning economic rise of China and India over the past decade has changed the financial prospects of many American industries. Coupling this with the United States’ inability to counter its loss of manufacturing jobs, we are staking our future on advanced technology in that sector, and it has brought us to… Read more »

All Roads Lead to Silicon Valley

DETROIT, Michigan – Each day the auto industry readies itself for more culture shock as it embraces technological change by an order of magnitude. What are the innovation factors driving the technology curve in global automotive development? Connectivity, safety, personal mobility, comfort, convenience, and more. With the arrival of technology giants Google, Apple, Microsoft and… Read more »

Saving the Planet One Car at a Time

DETROIT, Michigan. – For the past seven years the U.S. auto industry has introduced new technologies and product development changes at a blistering rate. The pace of technology adoption has pushed product cadences from 6-year cycles to 2½-year cycles with modifications and vehicle enhancements virtually every year. As technology has proliferated, so today has industry… Read more »

Is Your Car Safe From Hackers?

DETROIT, Michigan. – Is your car safe from hackers? In a word…no. Greater awareness of the seriousness of car-hacking was raised over the past two weeks since two professional hackers – one of whom is a former National Security Agency employee – proved they could wirelessly hack into literally thousands of Fiat-Chrysler vehicles wirelessly and… Read more »

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    Protected: The UAW Steps to the Plate

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    Tesla, Google and Apple on Collision Course?

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    DETROIT, Michigan – By most accounts technology behemoths Google and Apple are preparing to clash with fellow industry disrupter Tesla in a battle to wring out what precious little revenue exists today in the electric vehicle (EV) space. The “Electric Big 3” seem determined to jockey for the “vapor share” found in the narrow confines… Read more »

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    From the floor of the 2015 Detroit Auto Show…

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    The Rise of the South

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW December 28, 2014 – 12:30 pm ET NASHVILLE, Tennessee – It’s not just the SEC and college football that have gained national stature in the southern tier of the United States in recent years, it is also our domestic auto industry. Over the past twenty… Read more »

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    Deeper Problems in Mexico

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW November 11, 2014 – 10:30 pm ET CELAYA, Mexico – Along Mexico’s northern border, south to Mexico City, the automotive industry has made its presence felt here for three decades. Automakers from around the globe targeted Mexico as a regional manufacturing destination in the mid-1980’s. … Read more »

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    What’s Happening at Lincoln?

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW October 16, 2014 – 1:30 pm ET DEARBORN, Michigan. – In the midst of our all-out industry recovery, one of the fastest-growing and most competitive vehicle markets is the F-segment or full-size luxury car. Today, as factors other than cost drive vehicle investments, nowhere have… Read more »

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    Fuel Cell Furor

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW September 14, 2014 – 10:50 am ET DETROIT, Michigan. – As vast amounts of technology and leading-edge development pour into the auto space, new organic automotive initiatives continue to emerge to create previously undeveloped business segments such as Self-Driving Vehicle (SDV), V2V (Vehicle-to-vehicle), V2I (Vehicle-to-infrastructure),… Read more »

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    ArtPrize Entry – Farewell to the Moon

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    Will 2014 Sales Keep Up the Pace?

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW July 17, 2014 – 11:00 am ET DETROIT, Michigan. – Most auto industry experts euphorically proclaimed optimism for continued growth late last year as 2013 finished with sales of 15.6 million new passenger cars and light trucks. But in December when none of the world’s… Read more »

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    Losing Weight to Make Room

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    Phil Biggs covers the automotive industry for NewsTalk 1340 WJRW June 26, 2014 – 12:30 am ET DETROIT, Michigan. – Not a reference to the growing number of Americans and our never-ending trek to shed pounds, but instead the automotive industry’s innovative efforts to take weight out of vehicle lineups. OEMs are devoting enormous time… Read more »